On Fri, 31 May 2024 07:54:39 -0400 ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > I have some really really nice looking thick and heavy duty cables, > yet crap. You can never know. Like I said in an earlier post, some > cables are basically designed for power.
There even are some which are power only, no data. The pins simply aren't wired. But one would notice this pretty quick, I think. Regardless, my mobileread anecdote? The bad cable? Was new, recently out of the wrapper. Like Mark says, you can't tell by eyeball, or by age. Brand can reflect general build quality but is no guarantee that any given cable is going to work properly. > I'm really quite surprised that the cables can be that bad. Oddly > enough, the RPI seems to do better with USB than my desktop. I think it's less that they are electrically bad per se. I think it's more about electrical noise coming off the system board, or even the connected devices themselves especially if they have external power. Some cables are more susceptible, or become more susceptible with use (plugging, flexing), than others. Is my guess. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@driftwood.blu.org https://driftwood.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
